Something Much Darker, Ctd

Goldblog discovers a new source of Jew-hatred: the English. Now the resilience of English anti-Semitism is a fact; it is also a fact that in recent years, especially on the left, explicit loathing of Israel has become disgustingly common. But open discussion of the real crisis in Israel and its impact on a global war that increasingly affects the entire West is not anti-Semitism, especially when it is conducted as a way to promote a way for Israel to survive with its values and Jewish identity intact. And the attempt to chill such discourse can surely be the effect of sentences like this one:

Much of "Trials of the Diaspora" describes the deep tradition of English
literary anti-Semitism, from Shylock to Fagin to Caryl Churchill, in a
summary that leaves you wondering if it is possible for a
properly-educated Englishman to avoid harboring certain stereotypical
views of Jews, stereotypes and assumptions that manifest themselves in
disproportionate hostility whenever Jews behave in ways the English find
at all disagreeable.

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